In 2007, when Donald Trump was testifying in a deposition related to a civil suit, he blamed McIver twice for factual errors inserted into two of his books.

"This is somebody that wrote it, probably Meredith McIver," Trump said in that deposition, explaining how one of the errors had been made. "That is a mistake."

The deposition was part of a lawsuit that Trump filed against Timothy O'Brien, then a business reporter at The New York Times. O'Brien had written a book, "TrumpNation: The Art of Being The Donald," which concluded that Trump was worth substantially less than he claimed. Trump sued, claiming harm to his business, and seeking $5 billion in damages.

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In that deposition, one of O'Brien's lawyers, Andrew Ceresney, asked Trump about his past claims about his net worth, asking if Trump had exaggerated the highs and lows of his career. It appeared that Trump had exaggerated the lows, to make his comeback seem even more impressive.

The errors appeared in two books that portrayed Trump as a scrappy entrepreneur who fought his way back to riches following the bankruptcies of three of his Atlantic City, N.J., casinos in the 1990s.